Autographic register



J. Q1 SHERMAN.

AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, 1919.

1,386,964. Patented Aug. 9, 1921;

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 12, 1919. Serial No. 337,471.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, JOHN Q. SHERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the followr in is a full, clear, and exact description, re erence being had to the drawings formin a part of this specification.

y invention relates to autographic registers of a type which feeds in alinement and stores within the machine casing a full sized record of the transactions taking place on the machine.

I have found that the great draw-back in machines of the past which store a record has been that the record was a mere summary of transactions instead of a complete record of them. I further know of no instance in the autographic register field in the past wherein a complete record, full size, and perfectly alined with the duplicate issued strips, has been successfully stored.

In co-pending applications I have described devices for storing a record strip, which respond generally to the one shown and described in this application, and the feature of this application resides in the method adopted to actuating the novel storing devices of my former applications, Serial No. 299,793, filed May 26, 1919, by myself and Albert G. Metzner.

I accomplish the objects of this invention by that certain construction and arrane ment of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the essential parts of my invention.

Fig. 2 is an edgewise elevation of the friction drive devices.

Fig. 3 is a detail elevation showing a modified form of device.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the storage roll.

In the drawing, the casing of the machine is indicated at 1, and mounts the main or drive shaft 2, of the paper feed. On this shaft are a pair of alined sprockets or toothed wheels 2 which are adapted to engage in marginal perforations in strips of paper printed, say, in triplicate. The shaft is operated by an ordinary feed handle 3,

and the shaft is equipped with acam 42,430]? a purpose to be described. All the parts are shown as on the left hand side of the casing.

Secured to the disk or drum 10 on the shaft 2, is a flexible cord or belt 5, which passes down and around an idler 6 to be held in the machine casing. A rack bar 7, guided in a'plate 8, near the base of the casing, is secured to the cord 5, and at its other end to a spring 9. The construction is such that at each operationof the drive shaft, the cord is drawn up and the spring extended, and permitted to recoil at the desired time, thereby reciprocating the rack bar.

The member 10 is loose on the shaft 2 and carries a ratchet 12, which is tight on said drum 10 and .is operated by a spring pawl .11 on the sprocket wheel 2, whereby the revolution of the shaft accomplishes the pulling of the cord as above noted.

When, however, the drive shaft comes to the end of its feeding stroke, the dog 11, is struck down at its outer end by means of a fixed stud 13 on the machine casing. This releases the r'atchet wheel and the drum 10- which allows the spring on the rack bar to draw it back to its original position.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

Mounted on the lever 14:, that is pivotedat V 15 to the machine casing, is a pinion 16, which lies in the path of the rack bar. The pinion 16 is secured fast to a ratchet 17, and a friction wheel 18, on the same stud as the pinion and ratchet, carries a pawl 19, which engages the ratchet during clockwise rotation. (Figs. 1, 2 and 3.)

During the pull on the rack bar, the pinion 16 is rotated without affecting the friction wheel and pawl, but upon the spring return of the rack bar, the friction wheel is revolved a certain distance, because the ratchet then drivesthe pawl 19 that is fast on said friction wheel. e

The storage roll (not shown) of the machine is mounted on a shaft 20, and is suitably connected to a friction wheel 21. The spring control 15, of the lever 14, presses the friction wheel 18 against the matching is tripped to release the rack bar for its spring motion, the lever will ride into an indentation, but that during the operation of the feed shaft the said end of the lever will be raised up slightly. A spring 22 keeps the lever against the cam.

The other end of the lever lies normally adjacent the ratchet 23, that is fast on the friction wheel 21. This end of the lever is preferably equipped with a pawl 24, which is pivoted to the lever, and butts against it, as in a butt hinge, at 25. A spring 26 serves to keep the pawl in butt position, but if when the lever moves toward the ratchet, the pawl should strike against the tip of one of the ratchet teeth, the spring would permit it to give slightly, so asto engage immediately in the tooth just beyond the said tip.

When the normal feeding motion is complete, the spring bar will rotate the friction wheel 21, but when the feeding motion is taking place the cam will force the pawl tip of the lever 22 inwardly so that it contacts with the ratchet 23 and prevents the friction wheel and storage roll from turning.

The friction wheels are of special construction, the one has a V-shaped groove 27, which is channeled out at its base as at 28. The other wheel has a V-shaped bevel 29, which is flattened at the apex. The result of such a construction is a frictional engagement which is self grinding as against dirt and grit, preserves just the proper friction for a paper feed, and will turn without driving when the paper on the storage roll, (in the present instance) is taut.

I have found that this mechanism will roll up a perfectly tight record roll offull size, and will not interfere with the perfect alinement of the record strip, over the pin wheel feeding device.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the stop lever and pawl are not used, but instead a spring pawl 30, and an ordinary ratchet 31. There is shown a friction wheel 32,

' which has a flat periphery and a storage roll friction wheel 33, also fiat. Otherwise the construction is the same as that shown in the principal views.

Although forming no special part of my invention in its detalls, one way of mounting the storage roll would be to have the roll 34 formed with a socket 37 in one end, wherein a spring 37 is placed. A sliding plug 36, having a tip 35 will be set in the socket, said tip being adapted to engage the side wall of the machine frame. At the other end the roll may have a similar plug 38, preferably, rigid, which has a tip 39 to journal in a suitable hole in the ratchet 23.

p The ratchet will in such a case have a pair of lugs 41, 41, on its inner surface, and the esepea exact sort of transmission acting on the storage roll, is not essential.

. Having thus described my invention, what T'claim as new and desire to secure by" Let ters Patent is 1. In an autographic register, the combination with a friction wheel and a storage roll for arecord driven thereby, of another friction wheel resiliently pressed against said first frictionwheel, a spring actuator for the second friction wheel, a feeding means for duplicate strips of paper including a duplicate record strip, and means during the operation of the feeding means to set said spring actuator, and at the close of said feeding operation to release the same.

2. In an autographic register, the combination with a friction wheel and a storage roll for a record driven thereby, of another friction wheel resiliently pressed against said first friction wheel, a spring actuator for the. second friction wheel, a feeding means for duplicate strips of paper including a duplicate record strip, and means during the operation of the feeding means to set said spring actuator, and atrthe close of said feeding operation to release the same, said second friction wheel havinga pawl and ratchet drive from the spring actuator so as to operate only upon the spring movement thereof subsequent to the setting thereof.

3. In an autographic register, the combination with a friction wheel and a storage roll for a record driven thereby, of another friction wheel resiliently pressed against said first friction Wheel, a spring actuator for the second friction wheel, a feeding means for duplicate strips of paper including a duplicate record strip, and means dur-' ing the operation of the feeding means to set said spring actuator, and at the close of said feeding operation to release the same,

said feeding means comprising pin wheel means adapted to engage alined perforations in the strips fed from the register and 'in the record strip.

record roll, and lying in the path of said lever, and a contact pawl on the lever for contact with the ratchet, said pawl, being spring controlled, so as to ride over the apex of a tooth of the ratchet.

5. In an autographic register, the combi nation with a feeding device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper, of a record strip storage roll, and means for preventing the motion of said roll comprising 'a lever, means for controllingsaid lever from the feeding device, a ratchet connected to the record roll, and lying in the path of said lever, and a contact paWl on the lever for contact with the ratchet, said pawl being spring controlled, so as to ride over the apex of a tooth of the ratchet, said pawl having abutt-hinge connection with the lever, and said spring adapted to retain said'pawl in butted position. v

6. In an autographic register, the combination with a friction wheel and a storage roll for a record driven thereby, of another friction wheel resiliently pressed against said first friction wheel, a spring actuator for the second friction wheel comprising a rack bar slidably supported, a spring for moving the said bar and a pinion connected to the second friction wheel, and meshing with said rack bar.

7. In an autographic register, the combination with a friction wheel and a storage roll for a record driven thereby, of another driving member resiliently pressed against said first driving wheel, a spring actuator for the second driving member comprising a rack bar slidably supported, a spring for moving the said bar and a pinion connected to the second friction wheel, and meshing with said rack bar, said connection for the pinion to the wheel comprising a ratchet fast to the pinion and a pawl on the friction wheel to engage the ratchet in one directiononly.

8. In an autographic register, the combination with a feeding device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper, of a record strip storage roll, and means for preventing the motion of said roll comprising a lever, means for controlling said lever from the feeding device, a ratchet connected to the record roll, and lying in the path of said lever, and a contact pawl on the lever for contact with the ratchet, said pawl being spring controlled, so as to ride over the apex of a tooth of the ratchet, said means for pontrolling said lever from the feeding device comprising a cam against which the lever rides, and a spring maintaining the lever against said cam. I

9. In anautographic register, the combination with a feeding device for duplicate strips of paper including'a record strip, of a re-wind storage roll for a record strip, a

reciprocating spring controlled member,

transmission therefrom to the said storage roll, and means connected to the sald feeding device, for pulling the spring controlled member through a desired path and then releasing it for a spring return.

10. In an autographic register, the combination with a feeding device for duplicate strips of paper including a record strip, of a a re-wind storage roll for a record strip, a reciprocating spring controlled member, transmission therefrom to the said storage roll, and means connected to the said feeding device, for pulling the spring controlled member through a desired'path and then releasing it for a spring return, said transmission being adapted to communicate motion to the storage roll only upon the return stroke of the, spring member. 7

JOHN Q. SHERMAN. 

